Decisions Ahead This Week In Gray Related TrialsSunday, February 14, 2016
Robert Lang, WBAL NewsRadio 1090
This is likely to be the week we learn whether there will be further delays in the trials of the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
The Maryland Attorney General's Office is asking the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, to intervene, to determine whether Officer William Porter should be forced to testify at the trials of the five other accused officers.
Porter, whose trial ended with a hung jury in December, has been fighting any effort to force him to testify.
He faces a retrial in June.
Identical requests to the Court of Appeals were filed on Wednesday in each of the five remaining cases.
So far the Court of Appeals has not acted on the request.
On Maryland's News This Week, attorney Warren Alperstein, who is not representing anyone in this case, said that such requests are rare. He notes that prosecutors have limited grounds for filing an appeal, and these request don't appear to meet those standards.
Alperstein believes the Court of Appeals may agree to take up this issue, since there is a belief that all of these cases will wind up in the state's highest court, if the officers are convicted.
If the Court of Appeals takes up the case, it would delay the start of the trial of Officer Edward Nero, which is scheduled to start one week from tomorrow.
Nero, Officer Garrett Miller, and Lt. Brian Rice are the three officers who arrested Gray.
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